"Three congressmen sent a letter to the General Accountability Office on Friday requesting an investigation into irregularities with voting machines used in Tuesday's elections.Don't get me wrong. Do not misrepresent me here. I'm not American. Over and above the fact that my wife is a tad upset, the fact that this election may or may not even be remotely accurate doesn't bother me that much. But tell me this. How can a country where gazillions of ATM transactions are undertaken with 100% accuracy give this much cause for doubt in a single day that has had four years preparation time?
The congressmen, Democratic members of the House of Representatives from Florida, New York and Michigan, cited a number of incidents that came to light in the days after the election. One was a glitch in Ohio that caused a memory card reader made by Danaher Controls to give George W. Bush 3,893 more votes than he should have received. Another was a problem with memory cards in North Carolina that caused machines made by UniLect to lose 4,500 votes cast on e-voting machines. The votes were lost when the number of votes cast on the machines exceeded the capacity of the memory cards."
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I bet nobody gives a rat's ass.
4 comments:
It's all about incentive. Banks have put a lot of money into ATMs making sure that they are accurate for fear of the monetary consequences. Elections, on the other hand, are run by the government with limited resources with no monetary consequences, should there be a problem.
Bad news.
ATM's aren't that accurate. They can lose transactions and be inaccurate in a number of ways, plus they can be hacked. I'll admit electronic voting makes me uneasy - I'd prefer some sort of paper ballot for backup.
nobody give a rat's ass! are you mad! millions of americans are outraged at the outcome. just a matter of getting the damn biased media to present the facts instead of just glossing over the situation and pretending like bush took his second term fairly.
best regards, nice info
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